ade, and a sun which I have
never felt hotter even in India. My jacket was taken to shade
Robert's head, and what with blood and dirt I was a pretty
object by the time I got out. At 4.30 the Boers rode up and
asked us to surrender, or they would shoot us all. Colonel
Bullock was the senior unwounded officer, and had, perhaps,
twenty rifles all told. He refused, and they at once began a
fusillade from fifty yards distant, and our people returned it.
It was unpleasant, and only a question of minutes before they
enfiladed our trenches and bagged the lot. Bullock's men
knocked over two, and they then put up a white flag, parleyed,
said we might remove our wounded, and the remainder either be
taken prisoners or fight it out. However, while we were talking
100 or so crept round us. We found loaded rifles at every armed
man's head, and we were forced to give in. One of our
ambulances came up, and we were gradually collected at one
spot, and a colour-sergeant of the Devon Regiment carried me
upon his back."

END OF VOLUME II.

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|General: Errors and inconsistencies in punctuation have been corrected |
| without individual notes. |
|Pages vi, 6, 10: Drakenberg standardised to Drakensberg. |
|Page vii: repeated date 2 November removed. |
|Chart of Staff Appointments; Natal Field Force; 4th Division: Aides- |
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|Chart of Staff Appointments; Staff of 1st Army Corps: Orderly |
| Veterinary Officer blank in original |
|Chart of Staff Appointments; 1st Army Corps 3rd Division; 6th Brigade: |
| Aide-de-Camp blank in original |
|Chart of Staff A